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Reply to comment by sonomensis in TIL on March 15, 2011, 51-year-old William Melchert-Dinkel went online under screen names like "Cami" and "Falcongirl" encouraging people to commit suicide. Those who were interested he would instruct them step by step. He admitted to assisting in the deaths of 5 people but was only convicted for 2. by deeper_with_time
The word fight is exclusively reserved for physical violence? When Biden said he was fighting for a woman's right to choose, what did he mean? That Democrats should physically attack all people who are Pro-Life, or just justices and politicians that disagreed with him? How are those people to be fought? Guns, knives, crowbars, what?
Or did Biden mean just him, he's literally going to fist fight people who disagree with him? He got a chain and fought off Corn Pop, is Amy Coney Barrett next?
>The word fight is exclusively reserved for physical violence
No, and that's their entire point? That's encouraging people to fight without a direct call for violence.
Congratulations on making their argument for them.
That's not a "gotcha!" you misunderstood what I wrote.
If the word "fight" has a broad meaning, including oppose, then you can't assume someone using the word fight is trying to get people to be physically violent. The assumption is that when Jones says fight it's "nudge, nudge, wink wink," he's really telling people they should be violent but he's going to argue that he didn't say it outright.
When Jones says fight, we're supposed to read his mind and know that he means actual violence, but when anyone says fight we know they don't mean actual violence.
You're suggesting that because fight doesn't necessarily mean physical violence it's wrong to make that assumption. If that's not what you're suggesting, you need to edit your comments, because that's what they say.
That's a laughable notion.
My standard is consistent, the word fight doesn't necessarily mean physical violence regardless of who says it.
Your standard appears to be selectively choosing what fight means depending on who said it and what you divine that person's internal thoughts are.
My standard is using more than a single braincell to parse what someone says. Context and connotation are well defined concepts, and they're covering that exact thing you describe as seemingly a magical ability to pick up on what people mean.
Alex Jones, who's been around twenty years spouting conspiracy theories, and who's never used violence or inspired someone to use violence, is nonetheless trying to incite people to use physical force, that's what you're parsing? When you're the only one hearing the dog whistle, it might mean you're the dog.
>or inspired someone to use violence,
Oh we can make sweeping claims that were incapable of proving?
Lmao your opinion doesn't matter you're a plant by (insert entity) paid to do (insert task)!
Fucking lmao. Do yourself a favor and close reddit for the day, I don't want you overworking the few braincells left.
I don't think you're correct, here. Jones is, on his best day, a modestly entertaining POS, but he's not so low that he's gone out looking to get people killed.
>Oh we can make sweeping claims that were incapable of proving?
I'm not the one claiming they have the psychic ability to read minds.
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>Lmao your opinion doesn't matter you're a plant by (insert entity) paid to do (insert task)!
Yeah, you got me. I'm one of the feared Macedonian content farmers.
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>Fucking lmao. Do yourself a favor and close reddit for the day, I don't want you overworking the few braincells left.
Personal attacks are the best way to support your argument, you should join a debate team.
Well, I haven't heard of anyone employing physical violence over Biden's use of the word "fight." Maybe he said it in a way that was unambiguous and not in front of a large, riled up and armed mob. The context of the situation, the character of the people involved (including the constituency) and the overall rhetoric seem to be an important distinctions here.
Did you actually believe those were Biden's intentions?
Here's another quote from alex that invokes warfare:
"We declare 1776 against the new world order [...] We need to understand we're under attack, and we need to understand this is 21st-century warfare and get on a war-footing"
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